Re: complete IO hang since a few kernel revision

[Robert Hancock <hancockrwd@gmail.com>]

On 10/05/2009 02:33 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mon, 05 Oct 2009, Ulrich Lukas wrote:
>> A number of patches went into 2.6.32-rc3 which was released today.
>
> Ok, with 2.6.32-rc3 running now.
>
>> Can you test if your problems are solved with this latest version?
>
> Example:
> dpkg-source -x of a big debian source package
> which is more or less untarring a big .tar and then applying a diff
> which is much smaller (tar.gz: 482M, diff.gz: 412k)
>
> The dpkg-source has finished, I am back at the prompt.
>
> At the same time a simple
> 	$<ENTER>
> in a different xterm did not produce *any* thing, no output, for about
> 30 seconds. I mean 30 seconds waiting for an empty command is a bit
> strange I would say.
>
> I don't know to which this is related, but it seems quite buggy.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert

Are you getting any errors showing up in dmesg?